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Fact of the Week: 26 March 2012

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Over One Third of Volunteers Don't Come Back

According to a 2011 report from the Corporation for National and Community Service, "only 63.5 percent of the volunteers who served in 2009 returned to service again in 2010, which is two percentage points lower than the volunteer retention rate between 2008 and 2009, which was 65.5 percent."

Corporation for National and Community Service. (2011). New report: Americans devote 8.1 billion hours to volunteering in 2010. Washington, DC: Corporation for National and Community Service. Retrieved from www.volunteeringinamerica.gov.